Analytic Verification of the Droplet Picture in the Two-Dimensional Ising Model |
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Authors: | S B Rutkevich |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Solid State and Semiconductor Physics, P. Brovka str., 17, 220072, Belarus |
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Abstract: | It is widely accepted that the free energy F(H) of the two-dimensional Ising model in the ferromagnetic phase T<T
c
has an essential branch cut singularity at the origin H=0. The phenomenological droplet theory predicts that near the cut drawn along the negative real axis H<0, the imaginary part of the free energy per lattice site has the form ImFexp(±i )|H|]=±B|H|exp(–A/|H|) for small |H|. We verify this prediction in analytical perturbative transfer matrix calculations for the square lattice Ising model for all temperatures 0<T<T
c
and arbitrary anisotropy ratio J
1/J
2. We obtain an expression for the constant A which coincides exactly with the prediction of the droplet theory. For the amplitude B we obtain B= M/18, where M is the equilibrium spontaneous magnetization. In addition we find discrete-lattice corrections to the above mentioned phenomenological formula for ImF, which oscillate in H
–1. |
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Keywords: | Ising model droplet singularity metastable state false vacuum decay |
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